The Flood

Émile Zola

THERESE RAQUIN By Emile Zola Translated and edited with a preface by Edward Vizetelly PREFACE This volume, "Therese Raquin," was Zola's third book, but it was the one that first gave him not...

Émile Zola

Translated and Introduced By Havelock Ellis Translated and Introduced by Havelock Ellis J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.

Émile Zola

(LE VENTRE DE PARIS) By Emile Zola Translated, With An Introduction, By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Let me have men about me that are fat: Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:...

Émile Zola

CHAPTER I. Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.